Welcome aboard the sailing yacht of your choice, large, small, or in between, with
or without crew, sailing alone or in company, cruising Greece or Turkey or both. Welcome to sheltered
bays at the foot of sheer mountains. Welcome to isolated coves surrounded
by forest. Welcome to miles of white sand beach remarkable for the absence of life. Welcome to water-side
towns climbing steep harbor slopes. Welcome to potted geraniums and clouds of bougainvillea. Welcome to
the crossroads of history. Join us while we tiptoe through the seventh wonder Temple of Artemis at
Ephesus. Or through the Temple of Apollo at Didyma. Or through the ruins at Caunos, Patara, and Olympos,
picking sage and oregano along the way. Give us a hand as we reconstruct the fleet activities of
Alcibiades and Lysander during the Peloponnesian War. Enjoy with us a seafood dinner at a seaside taverna
or around a remote campfire. Help us locate wonders of the ancient world now covered by earth or the
dearth of written record. Join us in trekking through ancient Knidos, Xanthos, Arykanda, and Phaselis.
Applaud with us ballet and opera performances in the Roman theater at Aspendos. Marvel at acoustics
engineered by the ancients. Detour to Aphrodisias. Comb a Turkish bazaar or climb to a Greek acropolis. Have
you done any of these things? Have you been sailing in Greece and Turkey! Or merely the Caribbean? Well, you
can do these things in our company or at our suggestion. Should you not, you will miss the scenically
beautiful and more interesting parts of two countries rich in wonders. You should see Turkey's ancient Ionia,
Caria, and Lycia from the deck of a yacht. You should take that yacht through remote Dodecanese Islands of
eastern Greece. Once parts of the Lydian Empire of Croesus, the Persian Empire of Cyrus and Darius, parts of
the Athenian empire of Pericles and the Macedonian Empire of Alexander, the Seleucid Empire of Antiochus,
the Egyptian Empire of the Ptolemys, the Roman Empire of Caesar Augustus, the Byzantine Empire of Constantine,
and the Ottoman Empire of Suleiman! All of it encased in history and much of it encased in pine trees to the
edge of crystal clear water! Yes, the azure sea once patrolled by the triremes of Artemisia,
Memnon, and Lysander, and by the lateen-rigged galliots of the Barbarossa,
Kurtoglu, and Dragut brothers as well as by the Ottoman flotillas of Uluch Ali. Capture the history of
ancient Halicarnassus, Kastellorizon, Knidos, Loryma, Lydae, Phaselis, Rhodes, and Simi by tracing the
routes of Alexander's Macedonian phalanx, of Cleopatra's litter bearers, and of George Bass' underwater
archaeologists. Experience the flat water sailing of
ancient Telmessos over which fast pirate triakonters and hemiolas were once propelled by banks of
opportunistic rowers. Explore the pirate ruins of St. Nicholas Island, a trove of history visited by
one in ten thousand of Turkey's millions of annual tourists. Photograph the splendors seen by the
crews of pirate galleys long ago, and by Pompey the Great when he drove the pirates east, and by
the pirates again when they returned. Enjoy an evening at Cleopatra's Bay, Cold Water Bay, Sea Gull Bay,
Twenty-Two Fathom Cove, and a host of other anchorages all within a few miles of each other. Delight in
campfire cuisine, swim under pined slopes, and talk to new friends about wonders seen. Cruise the Aegean
islands of Greece: Lipsi, Arki, Leros, Agathonisi, and Khalki among many others, exploring ancient and
medieval ruins left by Dorians, Venetians, and the Knights of Saint John of Jerusalem. Do all of this and
more aboard a yacht selected, inspected, and approved for you by Blue Cruise Yacht Charters. Would you like
to know more? Well, let us answer your questions, crewed yacht or bare boat, where, when, how much.
Phone us in Turkey at +90-533-230-5781, e-mail us at
blcryacht@aol.com, or write to us at P.K.4, Gocek 48310,
Turkey.

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was a striking beauty with her own place in history. Born in 363 BC to the satrap or local King of
Phrygia in what is now north-central Turkey but what was then a part of the Persian Great King's empire,
she was destined to influence the course of eastern Mediterranean history. Following a failed revolt on
the part of her father against the Great King, Barsine's family in 354 BC found refuge at the Macedonian
court of Philip II. Barsine had earlier been married at the age of 8 to Mentor of Rhodes, a naval commander
in the pay of her father, and separated from him at the age of 9. Philip's guest for the next twelve years,
she came to know Philip's son Alexander and his tutor Aristotle before rejoining her husband in 342 BC.
Mentor died two years later leaving Barsine a widow at the age of 23. She promptly married Mentor's brother
Memnon, also a naval commander formerly in the employ of her father. Memnon had meanwhile succeeded his
brother as the Great King's local ruler of the Troad in what is now northwestern Turkey, and he was still
ruler when Alexander's Macedonian and Greek army crossed the Hellespont in 334 BC. Following Alexander's
victory over a Persian and Greek army (yes, Greeks fought on both sides) at the Granicus, Memnon was made
supreme commander of the Great King's forces in all of Asia Minor while Barsine was dispatched for safety to
the Great King's court. As Memnon was then commander of the Persian Navy
which was Phoenician, Cypriot, and Rhodian Greek in make-up, and as Alexander's admiral Nearchus commanded
an inferior Macedonian fleet, Barsine went safely by galley to the Middle East, sailing down the Aegean
coast of what is now Turkey and then along Turkey's Mediterranean coast to refuge in Persepolis. Alexander
that same year proceeded to take Miletus without a fight but met with stiff resistance at Halicarnassus,
modern Bodrum, defended by Barsine's Memnon. The outcome was indecisive with Alexander moving on before
subduing all of the city, and with Memnon later abandoning its defense. Memnon with 300 galleys proceeded
to take the war to Alexander's rear, investing the island of Chios and then besieging Lesbos where he died
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Life Of Alexander) as Barsine. For the next six years Barsine was a fixture at Alexander's side,
accompanying him in the reduction of modern Iraq and then in the conquest of modern Afghanistan. Between
them they knew something which escaped Dick Cheney and George W. Bush. In 327 BC Barsine gave birth to
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the Macedonian throne, perhaps because Nearchus had in 324 BC married Barsine's daughter by Mentor. The
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